The 5 year return of Bitcoin is ZERO today

If Tether fails, the price of bitcoin may go up to $100K overnight

Everyone in the world will dump their Tether into bitcoin and other cryptos

You think they will dump bitcoins for fiat because Tether failed?

Why they don't dump bitcoins for fiat now is because because they use Tether as a banking system stable fiat, equivalent to a money-market account when you sell your Amazon or Apple shares

Remove the capability to sell for Tether and many bitcoin owners in the world will be unable to sell bitcoins for fiat as they are unbanked in places like Lebanon, Dubai, South Korea, Turkey, Argentina, etc

Everyone will be forced to be hodlers of bitcoins and crypto assets

Everyone will be forced to be buyers of bitcoins and crypto assets as they dump Tether and other stablecoins (no stablecoin will be trusted) for bitcoins and crypto assets

$120 Billion worth of stablecoins in a huge rush to buy bitcoins and cryptos

Did I say $100K overnight? Maybe $500K/btc within 24 hours

Lol, more likely sub 1k, as real money has fear, fake money does not.
 
If Tether fails, the price of bitcoin may go up to $100K overnight
Everyone in the world will dump their Tether into bitcoin and other cryptos

That is actually an interesting take, I have to think about it. If this would be true, the whole crypto community should work on exposing Tether.

Is there data on how many Tethers are in small hands? Because I have a feeling big companies holding billions won't be able or willing to dump those, so I wouldn't count on those as sudden extra cash coming in.
 
BTC maximum drawdown is 93%
Annualized returns is 93%
It’s a 1:1 bet.

That ratio is actually very good.

The DJIA and Nasdaq makes just 6% percent above the risk free rate with 90% historic drawdowns.

But ofcourse Bitcoin is not going to make 93% a year going forward.
 
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Is there data on how many Tethers are in small hands? Because I have a feeling big companies holding billions won't be able or willing to dump those, so I wouldn't count on those as sudden extra cash coming in.

Only 2-5% of Tethers are in big companies (exchanges), most of the Tether in circulation are in individual wallets or locked up in defi smartcontracts

You can track Tether balances on the blockchains, it exists on more than one, but most circulating supply are on Ethereum

Fun fact, Tether was issued first on the Omni network

https://www.omnilayer.org/

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Click on the explorers section and choose your blockchain to track Tether

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
 
most of the Tether in circulation are in individual wallets or locked up in defi smartcontracts

OK, so those in smart contracts are highly illiquid, correct? And if (I mean when) Tether goes down, whoever accepted that as a collateral going to take a massive hit.
 
OK, so those in smart contracts are highly illiquid, correct? And if (I mean when) Tether goes down, whoever accepted that as a collateral going to take a massive hit.

defi has liquidation algo built into the smartcontract and will be the first to dump Tether if it depegs but remember what I taught you in previous convos, Tether is the king of liquidity, it will take a lot to depeg it

Tether was attacked recently and hardly deviated from $1. There was even a thread here on ET, lol

You can withdraw from any smartcontract defi platform in less than 1 minute any time, 24/7/365

This is the crypto assets ethos

Very different than TradFi that operate within business hours

And then they remove your ability to withdraw, like Blackstone, Genesis, BlockFi, Celsius, Voyager, FTX and others

People's funds locked up in cefi platforms
 
If Tether fails, the price of bitcoin may go up to $100K overnight
Everyone in the world will dump their Tether into bitcoin and other cryptos

I gave it more thought, and I think that is highly unlikely. This is what would happen:

Tether starts to drop, let's say it is at 90 cents. Tether holders get scares and start to buy just about anything. That causes a short term rally, I would say a few days tops. (maybe just a few hours, depends on how fast the exchanges act) Somebody has to be getting all those unwanted Tethers and that is the exchanges. So they quickly realize that they are the ones ending up holding the Tether bag and will suspend Tether trading. Probably other stable coins get dumped too for at least a while. If another stable coin can take up Tether's current role that is still to be seen.

So a short term rally and suspension of Tether trading what I see.
 
It’s pretty pathetic you cherry pick the absolute bubble high from 2017, and the bear market low of 2022, and the return is still flat lol

what the return since you first were bearish on bitcoin at $30? Would love to hear that one.
 
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